why we have so many fat people? deit-lack of sleeep,age-what causes it?

Answer 1

american culture, the problem is with the way our society is. America has a tendancy to want everything now. We spend alot of time in a hurry, and put more of a value on time then other countries. We want something thats filling and fast. This is where all the huge fast food corporations come in. They give us cheep food loaded with chemicals (to inhance taste) fast. Unfortunatly this food is loaded with fat. We raise our kids thinking this is ok, so generation after generation of kids begin awful eating habits. Starting from a young age its fairly addicting. Like in the movie supersize me with the guy who only eats mcdonalds for a month, he even said after stopping despite how much he hated the food he had withdrawls and the urge to eat it. Also the public school program doesnt help our kids out. Our vending machines in schools are loaded with junk. Kids are offerd ice creams and other stuff with their meals. In high school (I just graduated so it wasnt long ago) my senior year I did some work in the cafe, as a school to work credit. Their I got to learn about the fattning crap they feed our children. Due to govenment requriments on dairy etc, they often way overdue the fat. In order to meet calcium requrirements on the grilled cheese they would poor liquid butter over two peices of bread then put FOUR peices of cheese on then grill all at the same time. This would be served with soup that of course had more cheese sprinkled on top. Theres a ton of fat in cheese, and theres no way that kids need more than two peices (hell one would be peanty for me). Its all in our sad way of raising our children with unhealthy eating habits. Its really a shame.

By the way I do realise this was orignally posted as first answer, I was under the wrong account, and wanted the points to go to this one, so i reposted it. Good luck!

Answer 2

Because we like to overindulge (by WE i mean people in general). Some people have more of an addictive personality than others, some people don`t stop eating when they are "full", some people are just plain lazy and don`t give a crap about themselves, as you get older you have to work at it harder because your metabolism slows down with age, don`t have the money to buy good quality food (which is a major factor, because cheap food is fattening), no time to exercise, Stress. The thing that disgusts me the most though is that a lot of parents don`t seem to care about what your kids eat. They buy them Fast Food because they are too lazy or too involved in other things to make them a quality meal. There should not be 12 year old children out there that weigh 170 lbs!! That is ridiculous. I never thought it was genetic (show me the facts). It is the attitude you are raised with. If you are a child and your mom and dad weigh 250 lbs each, of course you will be chunky too....but only because YOU EAT MORE!!! Not because you have some kind of FAT-GENE! Get real! I think that is a lame *** excuse...

Answer 3

Being overweight is caused by a lot of things. Some are poor diet and lack of exercise. Someone answered that genetics have nothing to do with it. I beg to differ-genetics are probably 50 percent of the reason that people are overweight. I'm not as concerned about fat people as I am about insensitive people. I wonder why there are so many insensitive people in the world.

Answer 4

I love women with a few extra pounds, better than sleeping with a skeleton I think. Saw this one girl yesterday who obviusly thinks she's the most beautiful women on the planet. she was bright orange because of all the hours she's spent in tanning salons. Wore so much makeup you would need a jack hammer to get it off. Was so skinny that with her hipster jeans on I could literly see the top of her pelvis very clearly sticking out like a handle or something. How on earth can you call that beautiful, it was the most uglyest thing I have ever seen. Fat women as you put it, are by far the most beautiful women on this planet compared to the skellition I seen yesterday.

Answer 5

I guess some folks are fat .. because they like to eat ... but then there are others , who have real issues and use being fat as a protection... against others ...

Most folks , just assume that when the look at a fat person ... they know all they need to... unfortunately .. fat people wear their problems on the outside and can't cover it up like thin folks can and pretend it ok , when it is not.

Answer 6

Why are there so many insensitive jerks who haven't got a clue and wear stupid pink hats? Oops! Sorry, didn't mean to hit a nerve. Are you a cowgirl or one of the "Village People"? At least a lot of fat people can spell and actually graduated from college instead of getting their G.E.D. Have a good life.

Answer 7

i don't know if you are talking about america but if so, here is something to think about.

i am australian and my best mate-also oz- went to america for 2 weeks. she said that all meals there are at least twice the size of here and people eat out a hell of alot. and that is coming from a person who's country also has quite a percentage of 'fat' people

so yeah i would definately say diet.
also the 'i need to be successful' attitude causes stress, which causes lack of sleep.

Answer 8

A variety of factors. Too much food or unhealthy foods and not enough exercise. Genetic disposition. Habits like eating and taking naps or going to sleep directly afterwords. All these contribute to the obesity issue. Peace.

Answer 9

In the majority of people:

1. Poor diet
2. Lack of exercise

Answer 10

There are a great deal of things that cause people to be over weight. From medical issues to pure laziness. There is a vast amount of reasons... From thyroid problems to "my mommy doesn't love me so I'm going to eat 50lb big macs".. I'm not trying to be an insensative a--hole here. I'm just stating what I see.